also this insane hiring process
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It's a for-profit corporation, always was. The only thing changed is people started to actually care about it a bit
no problems with being for-profit, the problem is getting money from selling the private date of those using your product
It is a problem for being for-profit. When you're for-profit, you're seeking profit, and personal data gives you that profit. No way to not connect the dots.
You can entirely be for-profit and earn your profit without the reselling of personal data. It was more common before net 2.0, for example Google first served you one or two links of ads based on your search. No saving and forwarding user data, just simply "for X amount, your webpage will be displayed to users searching Y keyword"
Google was at the beginning of the market to sell the data, it didn't exist before. Obviously they didn't try to scrape every ounce of it before they made (not them specifically, but they played a big role in it) a market to sell it on. The second it became profitable, they started doing it.
You can theoretically be for-profit and don't do anti-human shit, but that will be going directly against the only reason for-profit companies exist: maximising shareholder value. So those companies either don't survive or change for the worse.
I have bad news for you, non-profits need money too
If you can't understand what the difference between the for-profit organization, and a non-profit with operational cost, you need to go way back to the basics
Um... I do understand but I am not sure you do.